Model Airplanes

Always know your plane. The type of aircraft on which you’re flying can have a big effect on the quality of your trip.

The most important time to “get to know your plane” is when you’re selecting a flight and buying a ticket. Most airlines, OTAs, and search engines show you the plane type during the search phase, although you may have to click on a “details” button for more information. And most airlines and OTAs give you a seat selection option before you make a final commitment to pay.

Although some important factors, like noise or smoothness, are inherent to the plane model itself, others depend on how each airline outfits its planes. Similarly, some choice factors apply to all classes of service; others are specific to each class.

Noise

Takeoffs can be noisy in much of the plane, but once you’re at cruising altitude, the noise in most of the plane results from turbulent airflow around the cabin—not the engines. (But to the extent that engine noise is a problem, newer engines are quieter than older engines.) Jet-noise problems are most severe in planes with rear-mounted engines, where noise in the last few rows can be truly offensive, but rear seats in planes with wing-mounted engines area typically the noisiest. And propeller noise and vibration in turboprops can be really annoying, anywhere in the plane.

• Favor: A380s and 787s, with their latest-generation engines
• Avoid: Seats far to the rear, and especially in the last three to four rows in MD80s and MD90s among the

  Article source: http://www.smartertravel.com/blogs/today-in-travel/you-should-always-know-the-kind-of-plane-you-re-on-here-why.html?id=22820658

One Gilbert teen began making T-shirts with $250 in Christmas money. A 22-year-old from Surprise founded a digital-marketing agency that has revenue in the millions of dollars.

They are among entrepreneurs ages 18 to 25 years old who founded and now run their own financially successful businesses. They did it without investors, bank loans or outside funding of any kind. Some said they avoided any situation that would put them in debt.

As future, current or former Arizona State University students, they all credit ASU with helping them achieve their goals, most saying that small successes they had in college gave them the confidence to start their own business. Also, ASU’s vast network of students, alumni, professors and mentors gave them networking opportunities they could only have dreamed about.

All rely heavily on the Internet and social media. It takes little to no money to create an online business and social media helps market it for free, they said.

Their stories of success provide a glimpse into the life of a modern, Millennial entrepreneur.

“Specifically with being a Millennial, there’s a lot of us that are motivated by purpose-driven work,” said Jennifer Hudye, 22, founder and owner of LifeBalance Coach Inc., a wellness-coaching company. “It’s important … to make sure they’re (Millennial employees) aligned

Article source: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2015/04/09/arizona-state-university-young-entrepreneurs/25530329/

“One person that you love? Isn’t that all that matters?”
“No.”
—12 Monkeys

“Spock, I believe I’m in love with Edith Keeler.”
“Jim, Edith Keeler must die.”
—Star Trek

“The City on the Edge of Forever” is one of the great episodes of television. Watch it right now on Netflix; let it break your heart, in 50 minutes or less.

“The City on the Edge of Forever” is also a complete crock of pseudo-scientific claptrap. It’s wacky like only old science-fiction is wacky—and it’s slow like only old television is slow. The 28th episode of Star Trek’s first season first aired April 6, 1967—48 years ago this week. Movies age like wine: Even the bad stuff gives you a buzz. TV shows age like ex-boyfriends: You don’t remember them being so cheap.

Here are the leaps of narrative logic you will be asked to accept if you—a regular modern-day person with fair-to-spectacular cultural taste—watch “The City on the Edge of Forever.”

1. That Dr. Leonard McCoy, an experienced medical officer from a far-future space organization defined by rigid professionalism, could accidentally inject himself with an overdose of dangerous space-adrenaline because the spaceship he lives on briefly shakes back and forth.

2. That a giant rock—which looks like a doughnut some young lover tried pressing into a heart shape—can speak, in English, in a voice that sounds like your high school principal imitating The Wizard of Oz.

3. That said giant rock is, quote, “The Guardian of Forever,” endquote, and that the Guardian of Forever is a doorway to anywhere and anytime—an incredible power which the Guardian

Article source: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/10/entertainment-geekly-why-12-monkeys-works

An A320 being assembled in Tianjin, December 2014. (File photo/Xinhua)

The Airbus and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and the Xi’an Aircraft Industry Factory have achieved domestic production of Airbus aircraft wings for the A320 series at their jointly operated Tianjin factory, reports the Shanghai-based China Business News.

The Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre, run by Airbus and its Chinese partners, is also fully functional and producing key parts needed for Airbus A350XWB aircraft.

So far, Airbus Tianjin has assembled a total of 216 A320s, most of which are for the mainland China market. Airbus Tianjin plans to assemble 49 aircraft in 2015, said one unnamed Airbus executive.

Airbus began cooperating with Xi’an Aircraft as early as 1999, with the latter as a contract manufacturer for aircraft wings. Now collaboration has extended to include the assembly, testing and delivery of whole wings, said the report.

The A320 wing project is one of the most advanced technologies Airbus has brought to work with the Chinese aviation industry, as the design and construction of a wing is the most technical section of the aircraft. Success in commercial airplane wing manufacturing has significantly boosted the overall capability of China’s aviation industry.

The cooperation entered the fourth stage in 2009, with Xi’an Aircraft delivering the first whole A320 aircraft wing to Airbus in February 2010.

Airbus Tianjin, which is a joint venture between Airbus, AVIC and a Chinese consortium in the Tianjin Free Trade Zone (TJFTZ), has been praised as a model for cooperation

Article source: http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150412000156&cid=1502

STILL WAITING TO LEARN THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSON WHO WAS KILLED. THE PARK FLEA MARKET REOPENED FIRE DAYS AFTER A FIRE TORE THROUGH. THE STATE FIRE MARSHLES DON’T CONSIDER THE FIRE SUSPICIOUS BUT THINK IT STARTED IN A KITCHEN AREA. WE WERE AT THE FLEA MARKET WHEN IT REOPENED. REPORTER: VENDORS AND CUSTOMERS STOPPED BY TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT IS LEFT. MOSTLY NOTHING BUT RUBBLE. MANY PEOPLE SAID THEY FELT BAD FOR THE VENDORS IN HERE WITH MUCH OF THIS BEING THEIR LIVELIHOOD AND SOME’S ONLY WAY TO MAKE INCOME. THEY WILL HAVE TO REBUILD BUT WITH SUPPORT OF EVERYBODY AT THE FLEA MARKET THEY ARE CONFIDANT THAT IS POSSIBLE. REPORTER: AS VENDORS RAISED THE DOOR IT WAS BUSINESS AS USUAL OR AS CLOSE TO THAT AS IT COULD BE KNOWING CLOSE FRIENDS WERE NOT AS LUCKY AS THEY WERE. IT WAS HEART BREAKING. I KNOW THE PEOPLE AND I WALK BY THEIR BOOTHS AND THIS IS HOW THEY MAKE THEIR LIVING AND EVERYTHING IS GONE. FIRE IS DEVASTATING. IT MAKES YOU FEEL BAD FOR THE PEOPLE. REPORTER: IT TOOK A LAST MINUTE PUSH FROM THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE ELECTRIC MANAGE TO MAKE OPENING DAY POSSIBLE. PEOPLE MAY NOT MAKE MONEY BUT THEY ARE HERE EITHER WAY. IT IS IN THEIR BLOOD. MANY HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE THE PARK OPENED 30 YEARS AGO. IT IS THEIR WAY OF LIFE. REPORTER: PATTY SAYS ALL KINDS OF LEATHER GOODS AT THE MARKET AND HER BOOTH WASN’T DAMAGED IN

Article source: http://www.news4jax.com/news/flea-market-reopens-after-fire/32321258

The European Space Agency has gone fishin’ — for space junk.

Scientists hoping to remove old hardware from orbit around Earth have gone on a “fishing” trip unlike any other: Instead of lining riverbanks with fishing poles in hand, the scientists are free-falling through the air, shooting nets at a miniature model satellite. You can watch a video of the space fishing attempt here on Space.com.

The trip took place aboard an airplane that flies in a parabolic shape, causing passengers to experience brief periods of weightlessness. The flight was meant to test the ability of a net (not unlike a traditional fishing net) to capture and remove dead satellites, rocket parts and other man-made debris floating in space. [Space Junk Cleanup: 7 Wild Ways to Destroy Orbital Debris]

Based on the success of the tests, European Space Agency (ESA) officials will take the “fishing” nets to space in 2021 as part of the e.Deorbit mission to remove space junk, which poses a serious threat to various spacecraft and missions. 

Over the course of two days, ESA scientists flew in Canada’s Falcon 20 aircraft in 21 parabolic arcs to simulate a microgravity environment. Each period of weightlessness lasted for about 20 seconds. During that time, the scientists shot nets out of a compressed-air ejector toward the model satellite.

The nets were packed inside paper cartons and were weighted at each corner to help entangle the satellite while in

Article source: http://www.space.com/29070-space-junk-fishing-net-video.html

Local State

Boeing 737s customer revealed

Boeing announced a big order for its forthcoming 737 MAX jets from Panama’s Copa Airlines to coincide with the attendance of President Barack Obama at a political summit in Panama City.

The jetmaker booked the order for 61 MAXs earlier and listed it on its order website, but the airline customer was not identified until now.

An analysis of the order website shows that COPA at the same time canceled a previous order for five current model 737NGs, so the net new order is for 56 airplanes.

The net order is worth about $6.2 billion at list prices. However, based on market pricing data from aircraft valuation firm Avitas, the real value of the deal after standard discounts is about $2.9 billion.

Pee Dee

QVC fined for worker’s death

QVC has been fined $4,500 and its safety program found deficient after a workplace fatality in November, the state’s workplace regulators have decided.

The S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation found that on Thanksgiving Day, Agnes Ann McKithen Carter, a warehouse assistant, was retrieving items on a forklift 30 feet in the air at the warehouse distribution center when a recently trained forklift operator struck her forklift. Carter, 45, was harnessed to the lift and fell with it.

The newly trained worker “was not looking in the direction of travel while operating it from the seated position on the product aisles,” according to the citation issued March 31.

Businessman faces tax charges

Perry Dean Barefoot of Chesterfield County was arrested Friday for the

Article source: http://www.thestate.com/news/business/article18237293.html